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Felicidade pela Agricultura (Vol. I)

Chapter 25: III HYMNO DE SANTA CECILIA
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A collection of essays and utopian meditations urging the improvement of rural life through agricultural reform and popular education. The author blends lyrical rural imagery, philosophical reflection, and autobiographical notes to argue that cultivating land, enlightening minds, and refining moral sentiment will foster public felicity. Practical recommendations alternate with visionary proposals; criticisms of contemporary policies appear alongside appeals to virtue and civic responsibility. The prose shifts between poetic exuberance and sober argument, using countryside metaphors to illustrate social aims and to propose gradual, humane paths to communal progress.

III
HYMNO DE SANTA CECILIA

NA FESTA DA SOCIEDADE DOS AMIGOS DAS LETTRAS E ARTES EM S. MIGUEL POSTO EM MUSICA PELA SNR.ᵃ D. LEONOR VIDAL DALHUNTY


Musa das castas citharas
de ethérea melodia,
Anjo, Mulher, Cecilia,
¡salve em teu festo dia!

¡Da terra aos Ceos elevem-se
nas azas das canções
a ti nossos espiritos
e nossos corações!

Melhor que o incenso, a musica,
do ideal linguagem bella,
os ineffaveis jubilos
á mente nos revela.

Dos sentimentos plácidos,
do amor, da paz, do bem,
ella, invisivel mágica,
ella o segredo tem.

Musa christan, confirma-nos
o ardor que ao bem nos guia.
Auspicioso aos miseros
finde o teu festo dia.